义義 in English
- justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 義, the traditional character: 义 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 23 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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Tatoeba: 因为语言意义不只是单字的总合。
Tatoeba: Because a language is more than the sum of its words.
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一篇大学论文描述了充斥在西方科幻作品中的「东方主义」。
A university thesis describes the "Orientalism" that imbues sci-fi in the West.
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中国是资本主义国家。
China is a capitalist country.
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义大利的首都是罗马。
The capital of Italy is Rome.
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他太太是我们义大利文的老师。
His wife is our Italian teacher.
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他是个自由意志主义者。
He's a libertarian.
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他是义大利人。
He is an Italian.
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他虽然号称自己是个社会主义者，但是其实他拥有两套房子还有一辆劳斯莱斯。
He claims to be a socialist, and yet he has two houses and a Rolls Royce.